Analysing Musical Multimedia

Nicholas Cook

Analysing Musical Multimedia

Nicholas Cook

Description

This book is the first to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different media--music, words, moving picture, and dance--work together to create multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way in which meaning is mediated in television commercials, the book concludes with in-depth readings of Disney's Fantasia, Madonna's video Material Girl, and Armide (Godard's sequence from the collaborative film Aria). Analysing Musical Multimedia not only shows how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia, but also seeks to draw conclusions from the practice and further development of musical analysis.

Analysing Musical Multimedia

Nicholas Cook

Table of Contents

ForewordPart I Introduction to Part 1: Music and Meaning in the Commercials1. Synaesthesia and Similarity2. Multimedia as metaphor3. Models of multimediaPart 2 Introduction to Part 1: Steps Towards Analysis4. Credit Where Its Due: Madonna's Material Girl5. Disney's Dream: The "Rite of Spring" sequence from Fantasia6. Reading film and re-reading opera: from Armide to AriaConclusion: The Lonely Muse